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May 27
is the 147th day of the year (148th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 218 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 1153
-
Malcolm IV of Scotland
becomes
King
.
- 1199
- King
John of England
is crowned.
- 1293
- A massive
earthquake
hits
Kamakura
,
Japan
.
- 1328
?
Philip VI
is crowned King of
France
.
- 1644
-
Manchu
regent
Dorgon
defeats rebel leader
Li Zicheng
of the
Shun Dynasty
at the
Battle of Shanhai Pass
, allowing the
Manchus
to enter and conquer
Beijing
.
- 1703
?
Tsar
Peter the Great
founds the city of
Saint Petersburg
.
- 1799
- War of the Second Coalition:
Austrian
forces defeat the French at
Winterthur
,
Switzerland
, securing control of the Northeast Swiss plateau because of the
town
's location at the junction of the seven cross-roads.
- 1813
?
War of 1812
: In
Canada
,
American
forces capture
Fort George
.
- 1849
? The Great Hall of
Euston station
,
London
opened.
- 1860
?
Giuseppe Garibaldi
begins his attack on
Palermo
,
Sicily
, as part of the
Italian Unification
.
- 1883
?
Alexander III
is crowned
Tsar
of
Russia
.
- 1895
?
Oscar Wilde
is sent to prison for
sodomy
.
- 1896
? The
F5
-strength
East St. Louis Tornado
hits in
East Saint Louis, Illinois
, and
St. Louis, Missouri
, killing 255 people.
- 1901
? In
New Jersey
, the
Edison Storage Battery Company
is founded.
- 1905
?
Russo-Japanese War
: The
Battle of Tsushima
begins.
- 1907
? A
bubonic plague
outbreak begins in
San Francisco, California
.
- 1915
- Off
Sheerness
, minelayer
Princess Irene
runs over laid mines and explodes, killing 400 people.
- 1919
? The
NC-4
aircraft arrives in
Lisbon
after completing the first
transatlantic
flight.
- 1923
? The first
24 hours of Le Mans
race ends.
- 1924
? The
Music Corporation of America
(MCA) is founded.
- 1927
? The
Ford Motor Company
stops making the
Ford Model T
and gets ready to make
Ford Model As
.
- 1930
? The 1,046 feet (319 meters) tall
Chrysler Building
in
New York
(tallest man-made structure at the time) opens to the public.
- 1932
? The
Sydney Harbour Bridge
opens.
- 1933
?
New Deal
: The
U.S.
Federal Securities Act
is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the
Federal Trade Commission
.
- 1933
?
The Walt Disney Company
releases the
cartoon
The Three Little Pigs
, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"
- 1933
? The
Century of Progress
World's Fair
opens in
Chicago
.
- 1934
- The
1934 FIFA World Cup
in
Italy
begins, with a series of knock-out games.
- 1935
? New Deal: The
Supreme Court of the United States
declares the
National Industrial Recovery Act
to be unconstitutional in the case
A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States
, (295 U.S. 495).
- 1936
? The
RMS
Queen Mary
begins her first voyage.
- 1937
? In
California
, the
Golden Gate Bridge
opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between
San Francisco
and
Marin County
.
- 1939
?
DC Comics
prints its second superhero in
Detective Comics
#27; he is
Batman
, one of the most topical
comic book
superheroes of all time.
- 1940
?
World War II
: 97 out of 99 members of a
Royal Norfolk Regiment
unit are massacred while trying to surrender at
Dunkirk
. The
German
commander, Captain
Fritz Knochlein
, is later hanged for
war crimes
.
- 1941
?
World War II
:
US President
Franklin Roosevelt
proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".
- 1941
? World War II: The German battleship
Bismarck
is sunk in the
North Atlantic
killing 2,300 men.
- 1942
- World War II:
Nazi
official
Reinhard Heydrich
is wounded in
Prague
and dies over a week later.
- 1960
? In
Turkey
, General
Cemal Gursel
leads a military
coup d'etat
removing President
Celal Bayar
and the rest of the democratic government.
- 1963
?
Folk music
singer
Bob Dylan
releases
The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
album, which features "Blowin' in the Wind" and several other of his best-known songs.
- 1964
?
Prime Minister
of
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
dies in office.
- 1965
?
Vietnam War
:
United States
warships begin bombing of
National Liberation Front
targets within
South Vietnam
for the first time.
- 1967
?
Australians
vote to change the
Constitution
to give
Indigenous Australians
equal rights
- 1968
? Future
U.S. President
George W. Bush
joins the
Texas Air National Guard
.
- 1971
- The Dahlerau
train
disaster near
Wuppertal
, then-
West Germany
, kills 46 people and injures 25.
- 1974
?
Jacques Chirac
becomes
Prime Minister of France
.
- 1975
- The Dibbles
Bridge
coach crash near Grassington,
North Yorkshire
,
England
, kills 33 people, in the
United Kingdom
's deadliest-ever road accident.
- 1980
? The
Gwangju Massacre
: air force and army troops of
South Korea
retake the city of
Gwangju
from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.
- 1995
? In
Charlottesville, Virginia
, actor
Christopher Reeve
is paralyzed (not able to move) from the neck down after falling from his
horse
in a riding competition.
- 1996
?
First Chechnya War
:
Russian President
Boris Yeltsin
meets with
Chechnyan
rebels for the first time and agrees to a cease-fire in the war.
- 1997
? The
F5
-strength
Jarrell Tornado
slams into the small town of
Jarrell, Texas
, killing 27 people.
- 1998
?
Oklahoma City bombing
:
Michael Fortier
is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the
terrorist
plot.
- 1999
? The
International War Crimes Tribunal
in
The Hague
,
Netherlands
charges
Slobodan Milo?evi?
and 4 others for
war crimes
and
crimes against humanity
committed in
Kosovo
.
- 742
-
Emperor Dezong of Tang
of
China
(d.
805
)
- 1332
?
Ibn Khaldun
, Arab polymath (d.
1406
)
- 1519
?
Girolamo Mei
, Italian historian (d.
1594
)
- 1623
?
William Petty
, English
scientist
and
philosopher
(d.
1687
)
- 1626
?
William II, Prince of Orange
(d.
1650
)
- 1651
-
Louis Antoine de Noailles
, French
cardinal
(d.
1729
)
- 1652
?
Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate
(Charlotte Elizabeth, Duchesse d'Orleans) (d.
1722
)
- 1738
?
Nathaniel Gorham
, American politician (d.
1796
)
- 1756
- King
Maximilian I Joseph
of
Bavaria
(d.
1825
)
- 1774
?
Francis Beaufort
, Irish
scientist
and
admiral
(d.
1857
)
- 1794
?
Cornelius Vanderbilt
, entrepreneur (d.
1877
)
- 1818
-
Amelia Bloomer
, American
activist
(d.
1894
)
- 1818
-
Franciscus Donders
, Dutch
ophthalmologist
(d.
1889
)
- 1819
?
Julia Ward Howe
, composer ("
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
") (d.
1910
)
- 1819
?
George V of Hanover
(d.
1878
)
- 1820
?
Mathilde Bonaparte
, French princess and socialite (d.
1904
)
- 1822
-
Joachim Raff
, Swiss-German
composer
(d.
1882
)
- 1832
-
Zenas Ferry Moody
, American
politician
, 7th
Governor
of
Oregon
(d.
1917
)
- 1832
-
Lizardo Montero Flores
,
President
of
Peru
(d.
1905
)
- 1836
?
Jay Gould
, American financier (d.
1892
)
- 1837
?
Wild Bill Hickok
, American gunfighter (d.
1876
)
- 1860
?
Manuel Teixeira Gomes
, 7th
President
of
Portugal
(d.
1941
)
- 1864
?
Ante Trumbi?
,
Croat
politician (d.
1938
)
- 1867
?
Arnold Bennett
,
British
novelist (d.
1931
)
- 1871
?
Georges Rouault
, painter and graphic artist (d.
1958
)
- 1876
-
Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski
, Polish
journalist
and
author
(d.
1945
)
- 1876
-
William Stanier
, English
engineer
(d.
1965
)
- 1877
?
Isadora Duncan
, American dancer (d.
1927
)
- 1879
?
Karl Buhler
, psychologist (d.
1963
)
- 1884
?
Max Brod
, writer (d.
1968
)
- 1888
?
Louis Durey
, French composer (d.
1979
)
- 1893
?
Hermann Dornemann
, German
supercentenarian
,
world's oldest man
from
November 19
,
2004
(d.
2005
)
- 1894
?
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
, French writer (d.
1961
)
- 1894
?
Dashiell Hammett
, American writer (d.
1961
)
- 1895
-
Douglas Lloyd Campbell
, 13th
Premier
of
Manitoba
(d.
1995
)
- 1897
?
John Cockcroft
, British
physicist
(d.
1967
)
- 1900
-
Ethel Lang
, British
supercentenarian
(d.
2015
)
- 1902
-
Fanny Godin
, Belgian
supercentenarian
(d.
2014
)
- 1904
?
Chohei Nambu
, Japanese athlete (d.
1997
)
- 1906
-
Buddhadasa
, Thai
monk
and
philosopher
(d.
1993
)
- 1907
-
Carl Falck
, Norwegian
businessman
and
centenarian
(d.
2016
)
- 1907
?
Rachel Carson
, American ecologist (d.
1964
)
- 1909
?
Dolores Hope
, American singer (d.
2011
)
- 1909
-
Don Finlay
, English hurdler and pilot (d.
1970
)
- 1911
?
Hubert H. Humphrey
, 38th
Vice President of the United States
(d.
1978
)
- 1911
?
Teddy Kollek
,
Mayor
of
Jerusalem
(d.
2007
)
- 1911
?
Vincent Price
, American actor (d.
1993
)
- 1912
?
John Cheever
, writer (d.
1982
)
- 1912
?
Sam Snead
, American
golf
champion (d.
2002
)
- 1913
?
Wols
,
German
painter (d.
1951
)
- 1915
?
Herman Wouk
, American writer (d.
2019
)
- 1917
?
Yasuhiro Nakasone
, former
Prime Minister of Japan
- 1920
-
Gabrielle Wittkop
, French
writer
,
essayist
,
journalist
and
artist
(d.
2002
)
- 1921
?
Caryl Chessman
, American, executed for murder (d.
1960
)
- 1921
-
Bob Godfrey
, English animator (d.
2013
)
- 1922
?
Christopher Lee
, English actor (d.
2015
)
- 1922
-
Otto Carius
, German
World War II
tank commander (d.
2015
)
- 1922
?
John David Vanderhoof
, 36th
Governor
of
Colorado
(d.
2013
)
- 1923
?
Henry Kissinger
, American politician, 37th
United States Secretary of State
, received the
Nobel Peace Prize
- 1923
-
Inge Morath
, Austrian-American
photographer
(d.
2002
)
- 1923
?
Sumner Redstone
, American entrepreneur
- 1924
-
Jaime Lusinchi
,
President
of
Venezuela
(d.
2014
)
- 1925
?
Tony Hillerman
, American
mystery
writer (d.
2008
)
- 1928
-
Thea Musgrave
, Scottish-American composer
- 1930
?
John Barth
, American novelist
- 1930
?
Eino Tamberg
, Estonian composer (d.
2010
)
- 1930
?
William S. Sessions
,
FBI
director
- 1931
-
Faten Hamama
, Egyptian
actress
(d.
2015
)
- 1934
-
Enzo Siciliano
, Italian
writer
(d.
2006
)
- 1934
?
Harlan Ellison
, American
science fiction
writer (d.
2018
)
- 1934
-
Uwe Friedrichsen
, German actor (d.
2016
)
- 1935
?
Lee Meriwether
, American actress and former
Miss America
- 1935
-
Luud Schimmelpennink
, Dutch inventor,
entrepreneur
and politician
- 1936
?
Louis Gossett Jr.
, American actor
- 1936
-
Marcel Masse
, Canadian politician (d.
2014
)
- 1937
?
Allan Carr
, producer, writer (d.
1999
)
- 1940
-
Mike Gibson
, Australian
sports
journalist
(d.
2015
)
- 1942
-
Piers Courage
, English racing driver (d.
1970
)
- 1943
?
Cilla Black
, English singer (d.
2015
)
- 1943
-
Robert Axelrod
, American political scientist
- 1944
-
Alain Souchon
, French
singer-songwriter
,
guitarist
and
author
- 1945
?
Bruce Cockburn
, Canadian musician
- 1946
-
Lewis Collins
, English actor (d.
2013
)
- 1946
?
Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen
, Danish
jazz
musician (d.
2005
)
- 1947
-
Henry McMaster
, American politician, 117th
Governor
of
South Carolina
- 1947
?
Branko Oblak
, Slovenian footballer
- 1949
-
Terry Collins
, American
baseball
manager
- 1951
?
Ana Belen
, Spanish singer and actress
- 1955
?
Eric Bischoff
, American
WWE
performer
- 1956
-
Giuseppe Tornatore
, Italian
director
and
screenwriter
- 1957
?
Siouxsie Sioux
, English musician ("
Siouxsie and the Banshees
")
- 1957
?
Duncan Goodhew
, English swimmer
- 1958
-
Jesse Robredo
,
Filipino
politician (d.
2012
)
- 1958
?
Neil Finn
,
New Zealand
singer and songwriter
- 1958
?
Linnea Quigley
, American actress
- 1958
?
Wayne Williams
, American child murderer
- 1959
-
Donna Strickland
, Canadian
physicist
- 1960
-
Ray Armstead
, American athlete
- 1961
?
Peri Gilpin
, American actress
- 1962
-
David Mundell
, Scottish politician
- 1962
-
Steven Brill
, American
actor
,
director
,
producer
and
screenwriter
- 1962
-
Ravi Shastri
, Indian
cricketer
and sportscaster
- 1963
-
Gonzalo Rubalcaba
, Cuban
pianist
and
composer
- 1964
?
Adam Carolla
, American
comedian
,
television
host and actor
- 1964
-
Volker Abramczik
, German
footballer
- 1965
?
Todd Bridges
, American actor
- 1965
?
Pat Cash
, Australian
tennis
player
- 1966
?
Sean Kinney
, American drummer (
Alice in Chains
)
- 1966
?
Heston Blumenthal
, English chef
- 1967
?
Paul Gascoigne
, English
footballer
- 1968
?
Rebekah Brooks
, English
newspaper
editor
- 1968
?
Jeff Bagwell
, American
baseball
player
- 1968
?
Frank Thomas
, American
baseball
player
- 1970
?
Joseph Fiennes
, English actor
- 1970
-
Michele Bartoli
, Italian cyclist
- 1970
-
Tim Farron
, English politician
- 1971
?
Paul Bettany
, English actor
- 1971
?
Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes
, American singer (d.
2002
)
- 1971
-
Sophie Walker
, Scottish politician
- 1971
-
Lee Sharpe
, English
footballer
- 1971
-
Beatrix von Storch
, German politician of the
Alternative for Germany
Party
- 1974
?
Derek Webb
, singer-songwriter, former member of
Caedmon's Call
- 1974
?
Danny Wuerffel
,
American football
quarterback
,
Heisman Trophy
winner
- 1975
?
Jamie Oliver
,
British
celebrity chef
and TV personality (
The Naked Chef
)
- 1975
?
Michael Hussey
, Australian
cricketer
- 1975
-
Andre 3000
, American
rapper
,
producer
and
actor
- 1976
?
Jiri Stajner
, Czech footballer
- 1977
?
Mahela Jayawardene
,
Sri Lankan
cricketer
- 1979
?
Mile Sterjovski
, Australian footballer
- 1981
?
Johan Elmander
, Swedish footballer
- 1981
?
Miloy
,
Angolan
footballer
- 1981
?
Fivos Constantinou
, Cypriot runner
- 1983
?
Bobby Convey
, American
soccer
player
- 1984
-
Kalle Spjuth
, Swedish
bandy
player
- 1985
?
Roberto Soldado
, Spanish footballer
- 1987
?
Gervinho
, Ivorian footballer
- 1988
-
Birkir Bjarnason
, Icelandic footballer
- 1988
-
Mari Pokinen
, Estonian actress and singer
- 1989
-
Igor Morozov
,
Estonian
footballer
- 1990
-
Nadine Beiler
, Austrian singer
- 1990
?
Chris Colfer
, American actor
- 1990
-
Apinya Sakuljaroensuk
, Thai actress
- 1990
-
Jonas Hector
, German
footballer
- 1994
-
Aymeric Laporte
, French
footballer
- 1999
-
Lily-Rose Depp
, French-American actress
- 1999
-
Harambe
, American-bred
Western lowland gorilla
(d.
2016
)
- 366
?
Procopius
, Roman usurper (b.
326
)
- 866
?
Ordono I
, king of Asturias
- 927
?
Tsar
Simeon I of Bulgaria
- 1508
?
Ludovico Sforza
, Duke of Milan (b.
1452
)
- 1525
-
Thomas Muntzer
, German
theologian
and religious reformer (b.
1489
)
- 1541
?
Margaret Pole, 8th Countess of Salisbury
, daughter of
George, Duke of Clarence
(executed) (b.
1374
)
- 1564
?
John Calvin
, religious reformer (b.
1509
)
- 1610
?
Ravaillac
, assassin who killed
Henry IV of France
(b.
1578
)
- 1661
?
Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll
, Scottish
Covenanter
, was beheaded
- 1707
?
Marquise de Montespan
, mistress of
Louis XIV of France
(b.
1641
)
- 1797
?
Francois-Noel Babeuf
, French revolutionary and early socialist (b.
1760
)
- 1831
?
Jedediah Smith
, American explorer (b.
1799
)
- 1840
?
Niccolo Paganini
, Italian violinist and composer (b.
1782
)
- 1885
-
Charles Rogier
, Belgian
politician
and
journalist
(b.
1800
)
- 1896
-
Aleksandr Stoletov
, Russian
physicist
(b.
1839
)
- 1910
?
Robert Koch
,
German
doctor
, won the 1905
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(b.
1843
)
- 1918
-
Ozutsu Man'emon
, Japanese
sumo
wrestler (b.
1869
)
- 1926
?
Sre?ko Kosovel
, Slovenian poet
- 1936
-
H. P. Hanssen
, Danish politician (b.
1862
)
- 1939
-
Joseph Roth
, Austrian writer (b.
1894
)
- 1941
-
Ernst Lindemann
, German
captain
(b.
1894
)
- 1941
-
Gunther Lutjens
, German
admiral
(b.
1889
)
- 1943
-
Gordon Coates
, 21st
Prime Minister of New Zealand
(b.
1878
)
- 1960
?
James Montgomery Flagg
, illustrator (b.
1877
)
- 1962
-
Egon Petri
, German pianist (b.
1881
)
- 1963
-
Grigoris Lambrakis
, Greek
physician
and
politician
(b.
1912
)
- 1964
?
Jawaharlal Nehru
, 1st
Prime Minister
of
India
(b.
1889
)
- 1967
-
W. Otto Miessner
, American composer and educator (b.
1880
)
- 1971
-
Armando Picchi
, Italian
footballer
and coach (b.
1935
)
- 1985
?
Kai Lindberg
, Danish politician (b.
1899
)
- 1986
?
Isma'il Raji' al-Faruqi
, Palestinian-American Muslim thinker, philosopher, and comparative religion scholar (b. 1921)
- 1986
-
Ajoy Mukherjee
, Indian politician,
Chief Minister
of
West Bengal
(b.
1901
)
- 1987
?
John Howard Northrop
, American chemist,
Nobel Prize
winner (b.
1891
)
- 1988
-
Ernst Ruska
, German
physicist
(b.
1906
)
- 1989
-
Arseny Tarkovsky
, Russian
poet
(b.
1907
)
- 1990
-
Robert B. Meyner
, 40th
Governor
of
New Jersey
(b.
1908
)
- 1991
?
Leopold Nowak
, musicologist (b.
1904
)
- 1993
?
Werner Stocker
, German actor (b.
1955
)
- 2000
?
Crawford Murray MacLehose of Beoch
, British Governor of Hong Kong (b.
1917
)
- 2000
?
Maurice Richard
, Canadian
ice hockey
player (b.
1921
)
- 2003
?
Luciano Berio
, Italian composer (b.
1925
)
- 2004
?
Umberto Agnelli
, Italian
entrepreneur
(b.
1934
)
- 2007
?
Zard
, Japanese singer (b.
1967
)
- 2007
-
Ed Yost
, American inventor (b.
1919
)
- 2008
?
Franz Kunstler
, last-surviving
Austro-Hungarian
World War I
veteran (b.
1900
)
- 2009
?
Clive Granger
, British
economist
(b.
1934
)
- 2010
?
John William Finn
, American naval officer (b.
1909
)
- 2011
?
Margo Dydek
, Polish
basketball
player (b.
1974
)
- 2011
?
Jeff Conaway
, American actor (b.
1950
)
- 2011
?
Gil Scott-Heron
, American
rapper
and
poet
(b.
1949
)
- 2012
-
Friedrich Hirzebruch
, German
mathematician
(b.
1927
)
- 2012
-
Johnny Tapia
, American boxer (b.
1967
)
- 2013
-
Bill Pertwee
, British actor (b.
1926
)
- 2014
-
Helma Sanders-Brahms
, German
movie director
,
screenwriter
,
producer
and
actress
(b.
1940
)
- 2014
-
Miodrag Radulovacki
, Serbian medical research scientist (b.
1933
)
- 2014
-
Massimo Vignelli
, Italian graphic designer (b.
1931
)
- 2015
-
Erik Carlsson
, Swedish rally driver (b.
1929
)
- 2015
-
Nils Christie
, Norwegian
sociologist
and
criminologist
(b.
1928
)
- 2016
-
Kai G. Henriksen
, Norwegian businessman (b.
1956
)
- 2016
-
Marshall Jones
, American musician (b.
1941
)
- 2017
-
Gregg Allman
, American musician (b.
1947
)
- 2017
-
Don Robinson
, English
rugby league
player (b.
1932
)
- 2018
-
Gardner Dozois
, American science fiction writer (b.
1947
)
- 2018
-
Aly Lotfy Mahmoud
, Egyptian economist and politician,
Prime minister
of
Egypt
(b.
1935
)
- 2018
-
Donald H. Peterson
, American
astronaut
(b.
1933
)
- 2018
-
John DiFronzo
, American mobster (b.
1928
)
- 2019
-
Bill Buckner
, American
baseball
player (b.
1949
)
- 2019
-
Veeru Devgan
, Indian
choreographer
, actor and director (b.
1934
)
- 2019
-
Gabriel Diniz
, Brazilian singer and composer (b.
1990
)
- 2019
-
Tony Horwitz
, American journalist and author (b.
1958
)
- 2019
-
Aharon Razin
, Israeli
biochemist
(b.
1935
)
- 2020
-
Tony Scannell
, Irish actor (b.
1945
)